Abderraouf Jdey

Abderraouf Ben Habib Jdey (30 May 1965-) was a Tunisian-Canadian al-Qaeda jihadist.

Biography
Abderraouf Ben Habib Jdey was born in Grombalia, Tunisia on 30 May 1965, and he emigrated to Montreal, Canada in 1991 and became a Canadian citizen in 1995. He attended the Assunna Mosque in Montreal, where he met fellow Tunisian expatriate Faker Boussora; in 1999, the two of them left for Afghanistan to train as al-Qaeda jihadists. Jdey participated in fighting against the Northern Alliance during the Afghan Civil War and appeared in a martyrdom video in which he announced his intention to become a martyr for Islam. In 2002, 2003, and 2004, the United States issued alerts that Jdey was planning to attack the country, but he vanished, leading to the US government launching a manhunt for him.